On Moral Authorities

[theologian]

Okay, interesting.

Well, I'm interested too with what you can say with the Five Ways.

(my emphasis) Such a way of thinking means you wouldn't be able to save someone from a murderer looking for that person. If they asked you where they are, and you know the answer, you wouldn't be able to lie to save their lives.

It is not a lying to prevent persons know the things they don't have the right to know, right?

Further, do we want to excuse lying with murder? I think that is not only a not very good excuse, but a very evil excuse.

Hmm, well, I don't feel compelled to argue against a strawman of Jewish belief. There isn't just YHWH, there's a whole pantheon of gods:

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

When Elyon gave the nations as an inheritance, when he separated the sons of man, he set the boundaries of the peoples accoring to the number of the sons of God. For Yahweh's portion was his people; Jacob was the lot of his inheritance."

When monotheism became mainstream, there was the need to correct such passages, and obscure monotheistic tones.

By the use of reason, many gods is false, for God, Whom is Pure Act, must be One.

Further, the quoted passages doesn't prove multiple gods. Can you give more passage that Elyon is God?

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